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Book Pittsburgh and Lake Erie R R

Download or read book Pittsburgh and Lake Erie R R written by Harold H. McLean and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad  1869 1969

Download or read book The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad 1869 1969 written by Roy C. Beaver and published by San Marino, Calif : Golden West Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

Download or read book Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Carnegie's vision of transporting iron ore from his boats on Lake Erie to his Pittsburgh steel mills was realized when he obtained ownership of a series of railroad companies in the region. In 1900, these companies became the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, which connected the Lake Erie ports of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Conneaut, Ohio, south to North Bessemer near Pittsburgh. Through vintage photographs, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad highlights the railroad passenger excursions to Conneaut Lake Park and the steam and diesel locomotives used on the well-maintained line. The railroad continues to serve the steel industry today and in May 2004 was acquired by the Canadian National Railway.

Book Pittsburgh   Lake Erie Railroad in Color  1976 1992

Download or read book Pittsburgh Lake Erie Railroad in Color 1976 1992 written by Richard C. Borkowski and published by Morning Sun Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rules for the Government of Employees of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Co

Download or read book Rules for the Government of Employees of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Co written by Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company Staff and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pennsylvania Railroad  Volume 1

Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.

Book Col  J M  Schoonmaker and the Pittsburgh   Lake Erie Railroad

Download or read book Col J M Schoonmaker and the Pittsburgh Lake Erie Railroad written by Harrington Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

Download or read book Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Carnegie’s vision of transporting iron ore from his boats on Lake Erie to his Pittsburgh steel mills was realized when he obtained ownership of a series of railroad companies in the region. In 1900, these companies became the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, which connected the Lake Erie ports of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Conneaut, Ohio, south to North Bessemer near Pittsburgh. Through vintage photographs, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad highlights the railroad passenger excursions to Conneaut Lake Park and the steam and diesel locomotives used on the well-maintained line. The railroad continues to serve the steel industry today and in May 2004 was acquired by the Canadian National Railway.

Book John W  Barriger III

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. Roger Grant
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2018-03-14
  • ISBN : 0253032911
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book John W Barriger III written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In John W. Barriger III: Railroad Legend, historian H. Roger Grant details the fascinating life and impact of a transportation tycoon and "doctor of sick railroads." After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John W. Barriger III (1899–1976) started his career on the Pennsylvania Railroad as a rodman, shop hand, and then assistant yardmaster. His enthusiasm, tenacity, and lifelong passion for the industry propelled him professionally, culminating in leadership roles at Monon Railroad, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad. His legendary capability to save railroad corporations in peril earned him the nickname "doctor of sick railroads," and his impact was also felt far from the train tracks, as he successfully guided New Deal relief efforts for the Railroad Division of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the Depression and served in the Office of Defense Transportation during World War II. Featuring numerous personal photographs and interviews, John W. Barriger III is an intimate account of a railroad magnate and his role in transforming the transportation industry.

Book Lake Erie   Ohio River Canal

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on rivers and canals
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Lake Erie Ohio River Canal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on rivers and canals and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North American Railroads

Download or read book North American Railroads written by Brian Solomon and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated encyclopedia of classic and contemporary American railroads features consise histories of 101 U.S. and Canadian railroads past and present. Illustrated with period and modern photography in both color and black and white, evocative print ads, and system maps, each profile is also accompanied by one or more fact boxes offering details on the railroads' geographic scope, hardware, and freight and passenger operations. Spanning more than a century and a half, this giant compendium of “fallen flags,” Class I behemoths, classic regional carriers, and transportation icons is sure to become the go-to compendium for railfans of all stripes.

Book Poor s Manual of the Railroads of the United States

Download or read book Poor s Manual of the Railroads of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an appendix containing a full analysis of the debts of the United States, the several states, municipalities etc.; also statements of street railway and traction companies, industrial corporations, etc.

Book Northwestern Pennsylvania Railroads

Download or read book Northwestern Pennsylvania Railroads written by Kenneth C. Springirth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erie's rail link to Philadelphia was achieved in 1864 with the completion of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, which later became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. By 1869, railroad lines from Buffalo through Erie to Chicago were consolidated into the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, which later became part of the New York Central Railroad. Completed in 500 days, the parallel New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, commonly known as the "Nickel Plate Road," was a 513-mile, well-designed railroad that emphasized excellent service. South of the lakeshore, the wide-gauge Erie Railroad enhanced east to west connections. Through vintage photographs, Northwestern Pennsylvania Railroads brings to life the history of the railroads that have served the region.

Book Railroad Gazette

Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pittsburgh   Lake Erie Railroad in Color  1956 1976

Download or read book Pittsburgh Lake Erie Railroad in Color 1956 1976 written by Richard C. Borkowski and published by Morning Sun Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building and Operating Model Railroads

Download or read book Building and Operating Model Railroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Board of Directors     to the Stockholders

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Directors to the Stockholders written by Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: